Sounds like even the so called 'elite" on the far left has anger problems. The other Conservatives on the Court better watch their backs?
Sonia Sotomayor said her fellow Supreme Court justice's comments sometimes left her wanting to dispense rough justice with sporting equipment.
"There are things he's said on the bench where if I had a baseball bat, I might have used it," the Bronx-born judge said of her late colleague Antonin Scalia on Monday.
Scalia was a longtime leader of the Court's conservative wing, often on the opposite side of Sotomayor on issues such as gay marriage and affirmative action after she was appointed by President Obama in 2009.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she sometimes wished she had a baseball bat for late colleague Antonin Scalia. (JUSTICE19N/Getty Images)
Though she disagreed with him often, much of the justice's speech to a University of Minnesota crowd on Monday dealt with the need for opposing views to work together.
"If we've lost anything, it's remembering that differences don't stand, necessarily, on ill will," she said, according to The Pioneer Press.
Scalia and Sotomayor were often on opposite sides of SCOTUS decisions. (JUSTICE19N/Getty Images)
"If you keep that in mind, you can resolve almost any issue, because you can find that common ground to interact with each other."
Sotomayor, who shared her Yankees fandom with Scalia, may have also been influenced in her choice of weaponry by her love of baseball.
In 1995, her federal appeals court decision effectively ended the MLB players' strike that shortened the 1994 season and caused the cancellation of that year's World Series.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/sotomayor-thought-hitting-scalia-baseball-bat-article-1.2835556?
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